June 27, 2013

News

Philosophy Bites has now been downloaded more than 18.5 million times. We are currently entirely self-funding and looking for sponsorship. If you want to support us, please use the the Donate or Subscribe buttons and buy our books and our iPhone/iPad app ('Love this app' says Derren Brown). We have many interesting interviews in the pipleine, including Mike Martin on Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste', Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will, and Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism. We are also continuing the monthly podcast series Social Science Bites (sponsored by SAGE) - our interviewees include Ann Oakley, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Daniel Kahneman, Sarah Franklin, and Angela McRobbie.

David Edmonds has recently joined twitter as @DavidEdmonds100. His new book about the Trolley Problem, Would You Kill the Fat Man? is to be published this Autumn by Princeton University Press, you can be pre-order it from Amazon here. David and Nigel will be speaking at a dinner event at the Isle of Wight 'Lost at Sea' festival on 2nd September .

In the Autumn Nigel will be leading the course 'Playing with Meaning' at Tate Modern. From late January he will be running a six-session introductory course Philosophy: The Basics in Central London (Tuesday evenings from 28th January 2014). Booking is now open and tickets are selling fast (maximum class size is 35).